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Drivers seethe at 'losers' in bruising Bathurst start - CtrlF.XYZ

Drivers seethe at 'losers' in bruising Bathurst start

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After days of rainfall caused chaos astatine the Bathurst 1000, it was h2o from different root that wreaked havoc conscionable seconds into the 161-lap race.

A burst h2o tube connected the greeting of Sunday's contention astatine Mount Panorama spewed liquid onto Mountain Straight and down to Hell Corner conscionable successful clip for the Great Race.

Drivers were warned of the impending threat, but erstwhile the endurance contention began each hellhole broke loose.

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Lee Holdsworth successful the No.10 Grove Racing Ford Mustang led the tract into the archetypal crook and swiftly swerved crossed the way to debar the water.

Behind past year's Bathurst 1000 winner, cars slid connected the slippery asphalt connected the tally up the straight.

In a divided second, seven-time Supercars champion Jamie Whincup (No.88 Triple Eight Race Engineering) got escaped arsenic did Jack Perkins (No.9 Erebus Motorsprot) who looked to person copped a deed from Dale Wood.

Whincup and Perkins simultaneously spun. That caused the No.9 Commodore to deed the close beforehand country of Tony D'Alberto (No.100 Dick Johnson Racing) and bent the steering connected his Mustang.

As Whincup and Perkins spun retired of control, Zak Best (No.55 Tickford Racing) took evasive enactment and slid onto the grass. However, his Ford Mustang conscionable clipped Perkins.

That caused harm to the close rear of Perkins' car, which necessitated it to instrumentality to the pit lane for repairs.

Best, meanwhile, slapped the factual partition and did capable harm to his car that helium was brought backmost to the pits connected a flatbed truck.

Behind the spinning cars, the remainder of the tract had to cheque up. Mark Winterbottom slammed his No.18 Commodore into the backmost of Team 18 stablemate Tyler Everinghmam successful the No.20 entry. Meanwhile, Jaxon Evans rear-ended the Matt Stone Racing No.34 of Jack Le Brocq.

Despite being among those to spin, Whincup's Commodore came distant unscathed.

Nasty' clang wipes retired 3 frontrunners

The contention resumed conscionable a fewer laps later, though it wasn't agelong earlier the chaos kicked disconnected again.

James Courtney's co-driver Zane Goddard (No.5 Tickford Racing) sought to enactment a walk connected Greg Murphy (No.51 Erebus Motorsport) astatine The Chase, lone to fastener up his beforehand tyres and spear disconnected the road.

On the muddied grass, the Goddard Mustang slid retired of power and speared backmost onto the way astatine speed.

With obscurity to go, Wood ploughed into Goddard and was swiftly followed successful by David Reynolds' co-driver Matt Campbell (No.26 Grove Racing).

The play continued arsenic De Pasquale got into the broadside of Winterbottom trying to debar Heimgartner, sending the No.18 into a spin.

The incidental forced respective retirements, including Courtney/Goddard, Reynolds/Campbell, and Heimgartner/Wood.

Heimgartner, who was among the hopefuls heading into the Great Race, expressed his frustration.

"It's similar these guys don't realise it's 161 laps and they're driving similar implicit losers," said the Kiwi.

"Hopefully they get their crap unneurotic and we don't person much information cars and don't ruin much cars due to the fact that Tickford, america [Brad Jones Racing], enactment successful truthful overmuch effort and past for everyone to instrumentality everyone retired similar that, particularly that past 1 was beauteous wild.

"I'd beryllium beauteous amazed if my car isn't earnestly damaged and volition request to beryllium rebuilt connected the jig. it's not what anyone needs and we're lone connected thigh bloody four."

Wood, meanwhile, was near successful tears.

"This full build-up is astir this 1 moment, astir going racing," said Wood.

"I felt similar we had a precise bully accidental with this squad with the radical I'm with, it's each awesome.

"And for it to beryllium each implicit truthful soon it's gutting. This is what you hold each twelvemonth for, it's what you enactment towards each year. For it to beryllium implicit truthful soon, I'm perfectly spewing."

Holdsworth led erstwhile the contention restarted connected thigh 10 up of Fabian Coulthard (with Chaz Mostert) and Warren Luff (with Nick Percat).

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